Date: Thursday 25th March, 2010 Venue: Royal Society of Victoria 9 Victoria Street Corner of Victoria St. and Exhibition St. Melbourne 3000
Monash University Faculty of Arts and School of Geography and Environmental Science invite you to public lectures by two leading scholars of Africa’s social and environmental history
Professor [...]
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Remapping Environmental Histories
One Just world – guilt trip or global duty?
Forum – What responsibilities do Australians owe the global poor?
Tuesday, 16 February 2010 6:00 PM
The Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre Cnr Swanston Street and Monash Road, The University of Melbourne
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Panellists including Peter Singer and Tim Costello consider the status of ‘white man’s burden’ in a changed world. Questions include:
How [...]
A new conversation begins, after the missionaries
Domain House proved a wonderfully theatrical setting for the initial conversations around ‘After the Missionaries’. On Melbourne’s coldest night of the year, a few brave souls ventured through the howling winds and rain, into the gloom of the domain, past the eerie Shrine of Remembrance, into what was for many years Melbourne’s centre for contemporary [...]
After the Missionaries events
These events relate to the ‘After the Missionaries’ issue of Artlink, which includes articles about how artists are negotiating their paths through a more reciprocal world. For more information go here.
10 June FORUM Has the world changed?
Has the Kyoto Protocol changed how rich and poor countries relate to each other?
Is Australia moving away [...]
Nikos Papastergiadis considers a ‘spherical consciousness’
Nikos Papastergiadis is Professor of Cultural Studies and Media & Communications at the University of Melbourne. His recent publications include Spatial Aesthetics: Art, Place and the Everyday (Rivers Oram Press, 2006), Metaphor + Tension: On Collaboration and its Discontents (Artspace Publications, 2004) and The Turbulence of Migration (Polity Press, 2000). He has taught at the [...]
Dark Writing: Geography, Performance, Design by Paul Carter
DARK WRITING: GEOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE, DESIGN
Paul Carter’s new book is a protest against the dumbing down of imaginative thinking. It champions a common reader who resists being patronised, and who is hungry for a deeper understanding of the places we live in – how they came into being, and how, if their creative origins are [...]
Peter Beilharz
Peter Beilharz is Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University where he edits Thesis Eleven, an interdisciplinary academic journal on theories of modernity. Here he offers his perspective on the way south.
My planned research includes a co-written book on the life and work of the founding mother of Australian sociology, Jean Martin; a book on [...]
